mountain life

When Ave Maria Mulligan spends time in Italy and Jack stays home in Virginia to get a new business off the ground with an eager saleswoman, their marriage is tested--but Ave Maria finds help from the Big Stone Gap mountain community.

The harmony of Lily's life in the hill settlement of Stony Clove in 1851 is shattered when she learns her family has been working as conductors on the Underground Railroad and their services are needed to rescue a neighbor who has been captured by slave catchers.

The harmony of Lily's life in the hill settlement of Stony Clove in 1851 is shattered when she learns her family has been working as conductors on the Underground Railroad and their services are needed to rescue a neighbor who has been captured by bounty hunters.

Easy-to-follow Spanish and English text describe what it is like to live in the mountains.

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.

After Heidi, an orphan, builds a strong bond with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, she is sent into town to attend school and be a friend to a wealthy man's daughter, who is restricted to a wheelchair, but Heidi's health begins to fail as her desire to return to her home in the mountains increases.

Presents Virginia Hamilton's novel "M. C. Higgins, the Great," in which fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love as a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills; and includes a selection of related stories, poems, and essays.

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.